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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418992" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ensign Epps, The Color-Bearer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ENSIGN EPPS, at the battle of Flanders,<br>Sowed a seed of glory and duty<br>That flowers and flames in height and beauty<br>Like a crimson lily with heart of gold,<br>To-day, when the wars of Ghent are old<br>And buried as deep as their dead commanders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ensign Epps was the color-bearer,—<br>No matter on which side, Philip or Earl;<br>Their cause was the shell—his deed was the pearl.<br>Scarce more than a lad, he had been a sharer<br>That day in the wildest work of the field.<br>He was wounded and spent, and the fight was lost;<br>His comrades were slain, or a scattered host.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But stainless and scatheless, out of the strife,<br>He had carried his colors safer than life.<br>By the river's brink, without weapon or shield,<br>He faced the victors. The thick-heart mist<br>He dashed from his eyes, and the silk he kissed<br>Ere he held it aloft in the setting sun,<br>As proudly as if the fight were won,<br>And he smiled when they ordered him to yield.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ensign Epps, with his broken blade,<br>Cut the silk from the gilded staff,<br>Which he poised like a spear till the charge was made,<br>And hurled at the leader with a laugh.<br>Then round his breast, like the scarf of his love,<br>He tied the colors his heart above,<br>And plunged in his armor into the tide.<br>And there, in his dress of honor, died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are the lessons your kinglings teach?<br>And what is text of your proud commanders?<br>Out of the centuries, heroes reach<br>With the scroll of a deed, with the word of a story,<br>Of one man's truth and of all men's glory,<br>Like Ensign Epps at the battle of Flanders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Boyle+O%27Reilly">John Boyle O'Reilly</a><div class=q>
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Sowed a seed of glory and duty
That flowers and flames in height and beauty
Like a crimson lily with heart of gold,
To-day, when the wars of Ghent are old
And buried as deep as their dead commanders.

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